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Strategies for analysis and use of data
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| 2025 |
Data broker
Zhou Shuai and Yin Kecheng, two China-based data brokers, were accused by the U.S. Department of State of selling sensitive American data to China's Ministry of Public Security.
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| 2025 |
Big data
Upcoming fourth Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference planned.
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| 2025 |
Big data
IDC predicts global data volume will expand to 163 zettabytes
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| 2025 |
Unstructured data
IDC and Seagate predicted the global datasphere would expand to 163 zettabytes, with the majority being unstructured data.
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| 2024 |
Big data
Square Kilometre Array radio telescope expected to become operational, with plans to gather 14 exabytes and store one petabyte of data per day.
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| 2023 |
SWOT analysis
Richard W. Puyt and colleagues published a history of SWOT, criticizing Mintzberg's account and asserting that the Long Range Planning Service at Stanford was the true originator of the SWOT concept.
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| 2023 |
Big data
Third Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference conducted.
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| 2022 | Lakshmi Narayanan of the Patel Family Office was named Chairman of SWFI. |
| 2021 |
Big data
Founding members of BigSurv received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
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| 2021 |
Big data
Global spending on big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions estimated to reach $215.7 billion
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| 2020 |
Data broker
Data broker firms lobbied and spent $29 million to influence potential federal regulation.
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| 2020 |
Big data
Global data volume projected to reach 44 zettabytes as predicted by earlier IDC report
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| 2020 |
Big data
China plans to implement a nationwide Social Credit System that assigns personal scores to citizens based on their behavior, utilizing big data analysis technology for mass surveillance.
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| 2020 |
Big data
Second Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference held virtually due to global circumstances.
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| 2020 |
Big data
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope expected to come online, with designers anticipating acquisition of 200 GB of data every five days.
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| 2020 |
Unstructured data
IDC and Dell EMC projected that global data would grow to 40 zettabytes.
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| 2020 | SWFI expanded its research coverage to include the family office sector and wealth management firms. |
| 2019 |
Guided analytics
KNIME continued to propose guided analytics as a key mechanism to abstract data science for broader user accessibility, releasing additional analytical blueprints.
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| October 2019 |
Data broker
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1202, requiring data brokers to register with the Attorney General and provide information about their data collection practices.
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| May 2019 | GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) legislation was implemented in Europe, significantly impacting the business intelligence market by introducing strict data collection and storage compliance requirements. |
| 2018 |
Data broker
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is brought into operation in the European Union, establishing strict rules for data collection and processing.
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| 2018 |
Guided analytics
Business intelligence vendors began describing guided analytics in the context of advanced analytics use cases, extending beyond interactive dashboards. The approach was recognized as applicable across each phase of the CRISP-DM data science cycle.
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| 2018 |
Guided analytics
KNIME released analytical blueprints for guided analytics workflows with a special focus on automated machine learning.
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| 2018 |
Big data
First Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference held, marking the beginning of exploring complementary approaches between big data and survey science.
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| 2018 |
Big data
A definitive description of big data emerges, emphasizing the need for parallel computing tools to handle data and marking a distinct change in computer science approaches to data processing.
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| 2018 |
Unstructured data
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into force in the EU, effectively eliminating the previous distinction between structured and unstructured data in privacy regulations.
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| 2017 | Carl Linaburg left the organization after being a key early member. |
| 2016 |
Guided analytics
Vendors like Qlik and Tableau proposed guided analytics approaches for exploratory data analysis tasks.
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| 2016 |
Mobile business intelligence
The concept of mobile computing has been prevalent for over a decade, but Mobile BI only recently showed significant growth and momentum.
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| 2016 |
Mobile business intelligence
Peters et al. define Mobile Business Intelligence as a system comprising technical and organizational elements for presenting historical and real-time information on mobile devices to enable effective decision-making.
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| 2015 |
Mobile business intelligence
Projected milestone where media tablet shipments are expected to reach around 50% of laptop shipments, with Windows 8 likely to be in third place behind Android and Apple platforms.
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| 2014 |
Data broker
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission again recommended legislation for consumer access to data broker information.
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| May 2014 |
Data broker
A White House report found evidence of potential discrimination in online advertising based on perceived racial names.
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| March 2014 |
Big data
The British government founded the Alan Turing Institute, focusing on new ways to collect and analyze large data sets.
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| March 2014 |
Big data
Encrypted search and cluster formation in big data were demonstrated at the American Society of Engineering Education by researchers Gautam Siwach and Amir Esmailpour, investigating security and search techniques in encrypted big data.
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| 2013 |
Data broker
The U.S. Government Accountability Office called for Congress to consider legislation regarding data brokers.
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| 2013 |
Data broker
A United States Senate Committee published a review of the data broker industry, highlighting concerns about data collection and consumer privacy.
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| 2013 |
Big data
IDC report predicts global data volume at 4.4 zettabytes, with projection to grow to 44 zettabytes by 2020
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| 2013 | Gartner released a report categorizing business intelligence vendors into 'pure-play' independent vendors and consolidated 'mega-vendors'. |
| 2012 |
Data broker
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission renewed its recommendation for legislation enabling consumer access to data broker information.
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| 2012 |
Guided analytics
Ben Shneiderman, a prominent visual analytics expert, co-authored a paper discussing guided analytics among the 'interactive dynamics for visual analysis', highlighting how visual-analysis systems can incorporate guided analytics to lead analysts through common task workflows.
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| December 2012 |
Mobile business intelligence
Microsoft planned to launch touch-based mobile BI applications for iOS and Android platforms in the second half of the year.
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| June 2012 |
Mobile business intelligence
Microsoft announced plans to support browser-based applications like Reporting Services and PerformancePoint on iOS in the first half of the year.
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| May 2012 |
Big data
Massachusetts announced the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative, providing funding from state government and private companies to research institutions, with MIT hosting the Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data.
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| March 2012 |
Big data
The White House announced a national 'Big Data Initiative' involving six federal departments and agencies committing over $200 million to big data research projects, including a $10 million NSF grant to UC Berkeley's AMPLab.
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